对抗性政治、话语接合与多元而激进的民主——拉克劳和墨菲的政治思想述评

拉克劳和墨菲从人类社会对抗的永恒性角度来理解政治.他们认为对抗在社会生活中具有积极的、建设性的作用,而且我者与他者之间竞争的开展正是民主所必需的.在当代西方社会,阶级斗争已被各种形式的反资本主义斗争所取代,对抗的主体已趋于多元化.只要这些主体认识到新社会运动的所有参与者都是实现民主的动力与载体,他们就可以在多元而激进的民主话语接舍下构建"激进的公民身份"及反抗压迫的等同链条.尽管拉克劳和墨菲对马克思主义的改造带有浓厚的唯心主义色彩,但正统马克思主义者仍然可以从他们的政治理论中吸取有益的成分,以更好地丰富和发展马克思主义理论.

Antagonism Politics,Articulation and Radical Democratic Pluralism:Remark on the Political Thought of Laclau and Mouffe

Laclau and Mouffe understand politics from the angle of the immutability of antagonism in human society.They think antagonism can play positive and constructive role in social life,and the evolvement of competition between us and them is necessary for democracy.In contemporary western society,class struggle has been replaced by other kinds of anticapitalism struggle,and the subjects of antagonism have become multiplied.As long as these subjects realize that all participants of new social movement are the mo...